Columns

Once again the Earth has cycled back to where its northern half (which happens to include us) is tilted towards...

The entries have been copied from the July issues of the New Paltz Independent.

I thought I knew all I needed to know about the hardships my Irish ancestors endured during the infamous potato famine...

Mars is performing a wonderful, colorful conjunction, and it’s easy to spot. At 9:30 or 9:45, tonight or the next...

Yesterday, I spent an hour with Dawn Borrello, the new owner of The Bakery who intends to elongate the life...

Many assume the universe’s underlying nature can be revealed by astronomy or its cousin cosmology. That’s a big change from...

On Tuesday, May 9 the City of Kingston police arrested two juveniles responsible for the 18-second, brutal, life-altering attack on another child....

June 1 is considered the start of meteorological summer.

All this year Earth's sister planet has heated up the evening sky like a UFO. You've surely seen that dazzling...

Last week’s news was exciting: A meteor plunged through the roof of a New Jersey home, was scientifically identified by...

When Pastor Chris Williams survived a severe car accident at age 18, in which he and his father were miraculously...

The truth is that spring in the northeast is a time of great (albeit painstakingly slow) transition and impatient humans...

Harold Evans was an English journalist, writer and editor who loved America before he had ever seen it. He eventually...

When this long cloudy period finally ends, let’s point our eyes toward arguably the most amazing thing in the universe....

The ‘‘Our towns’’ column is compiled each month by Carol Johnson of the Haviland-Heidgerd Historical Collection. The entries have been...

Either nature is perfect, or else dark, snakelike patterns slither menacingly through the universe’s appointment calendar, its pages redolent with...

The days are noticeably longer, more and more migrating birds have returned; moths have hatched and are mobbing street-lights; the...

In one of the most egregious science news goof-ups of the past half century, many mainstream media sources urged people...

Venus is the brightest “star” in the cosmos. No wonder civilizations through the ages worshiped it.

The wild concept of a crushed sun started in 1783 with the British natural philosopher John Mitchell. He proposed the...